Pietro Straulino-Rodriguez

Pietro Straulino-Rodríguez is the managing partner of the Mexico City office of Ogletree Deakins. Before starting at Ogletree Deakins, Pietro worked for a number of years as a partner in private practice at a leading law firm in Mexico City in the firm’s Labor, Social Security and Immigration practice group. Previously he worked for a major labor boutique in Mexico City, in which he participated as an advisor and litigator in several matters. In addition, Pietro worked in the legal and government relations department of Ford Motor Company in Mexico. He has successfully combined his professional practice with his teaching activity as a professor of Labor Law at the Escuela Libre de Derecho. He speaks Spanish, English and Italian.

Represented global, industrial contract logistics company in defending an entitlement claim filed by a ferocious and aggressive local union that tried to administer the existing bargaining agreement while representing less than 10% of the employees, continuing clients’ operations on a normal basis without any interruptions on its service. Obtain a favorable resolution for the client’s interest.

Represented a major oil and gas company in the North part of the Mexican Republic, negotiating with its Union for the termination of the Collective Bargaining Agreement that dated 1930. Saved the Company approximately USD$50 M.

Has advised several national and international companies on the implementation of individual and collective corporate labor structures, including the implementation of individual work contracts, collective bargaining agreements, global policies, employment manuals, and codes of ethics and of conduct, adapting all of these to be applicable under Mexican laws.

Has participated in complex negotiations with labor unions for the revision of their collective labor contracts regulating the labor relations with national and international companies in Mexico.

Has participated in the analysis of structural labor risks, employment transfers, personnel reduction, temporal suspension of labor relations (for technicians), as well as the approval of benefit schemes resulting from partial and/or complete mergers and acquisitions.

Has advised a major worldwide airline on the implementation of worker benefit harmonization in Mexico after a merger, resulting in the collective negotiation with the unions and the workers from both companies.

Has participated in several inter-union conflicts in Mexico, executing various legal strategies for the change of union management without affecting the daily operations of the companies.

Has executed several legal strategies for individual litigation, resulting in significant savings for pharmaceutical and manufacturing companies in Mexico.

Has participated in the research and revision of specific pension laws for local institutions.

Insights by Pietro Straulino-Rodriguez

After more than two years of deliberation, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement [T-MAC in Mexico] will enter into force on July 1, 2020. The three-nation agreement includes a key element employers may want to take note of—employers and unions will be able to negotiate disputes through alternative methods of dispute resolution.

On April 21, 2020, Mexico’s Ministry of Health extended through May 30, 2020, an emergency decree suspending all nonessential activities in the country in order to prevent the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) from continuing to spread.

The United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA) was signed by U.S. President Donald Trump, former Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on November 30, 2018. The USMCA was designed to update and replace the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Canada was the last of the three signatories to ratify the deal.

On March 30, 2020, Mexico’s Ministry of Health declared a national sanitary emergency “per force majeure” due to the COVID-19 pandemic, mandating the immediate suspension of all private and public sector “non-essential” activities. The order is effective March 31, 2020, through April 30, 2020.

As of March 24, 2020 and effective until April 19, 2020, the Mexican government implemented a number of measures aimed at stopping the spread of the novel coronavirus, and the illness it causes, COVID-19. The latest regulation, which the Official Gazette of the Federation (Diario Oficial de la Federación) recently published, requires employers and individuals to comply with a number of preventive and obligatory measures.

Recently Mexico has been facing a considerable and seemingly uncontrollable increase in femicide cases. In 2019, more than 3,825 women were killed, and the rate of femicide in Mexico increased by 6 percent from 2018. Currently, 10 to 15 women are killed every day, presumably due to their gender. An analysis conducted by the national institute of statistics and geography—the Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI)— established that over 50 percent of Mexican women have suffered violence because of their gender.

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